Setting up wordpress

Since I'm running through the wordpress install again, I figured I'd take Marc's advice and 'blog my changes'.

• Plugins:
  
  
  
  • Ultimate tag warrior
  
  
  • feedburner
  
  
  • related posts
  
  
  • seo title tag
  
  
  • sitemap
  
  
  • widgets
  
  
  • Tarski links widget
  
  
  • Popularity Contest (disable visible rankings for external viewers)
  
  
  
  


• Tarski theme:
  
  
  
  • Edit footer.php to remove the recent entries section and lower sidebar.
  
  
  • Edit sidebar.php to always show the "Main Sidebar" widget thing, and only show the "Widget Footer" one for the front page, to make the sidebar shorter for individual posts.
  
  
  • Edit header.php, replacing the standard title call with the SEO title tag.
  
  
  • Edit loop.php to display the related entries in the content block.
  
  
  
  

Gratuitous kitty photo

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Spook in her box tunnel, originally uploaded by James Bowes.

I’m still playing around with the new hotness that is wordpress. This is me using the ‘blog this’ feature in flickr.

Above is our girl cat, spook, playing in a tunnel made from free cardboard boxes, sent to us from eBay and the USPS. The boxes are now long gone, after being filled with various nerd accoutrements. The cat remains.

New hosting

I’ve moved my blog and associated pages from Dal CS to the dangerously incompetent data center. Also, I’ve moved it from pybloxsom to wordpress, mainly because of what Marc has written about it. So far I’m very impressed.

The most difficult thing has been setting up redirects from my old cs pages to these new ones, due to the apache configuration at Dal. I’ve had to do silly things like making a directory called “cv.html”, and placing an index.php file in there that will write out redirect headers. I also had to write up a quick python cgi program that translates requests for old blog posts into redirects to their locations on my new blog. Good times.

Upgrading

Following last week's Planet upgrade, I've upgraded my blog to the latest release of PyBlosxom. Nothing seems much different, except its newer.

Planet Upgrade

I upgraded Planet Dal CS to the latest stable release of Planet today. Everything looks good, but if you notice a bug, let me know.